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UP RAILROAD COMPANY

Total Donated

$3,567,994

Contributions

27,188

Unique Donors

769

Top Employer

UP RAILROAD COMPANY

Contributors who listed UP RAILROAD COMPANY on federal itemized receipts account for $3.6M ($3,567,994), according to FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The cluster is 27,188 contributions from 769 donors. UP RAILROAD COMPANY is an abbreviated carrier stamp as typed — UP plus RAILROAD COMPANY — not a NAICS rail-transportation total, not Union Pacific’s PAC, and not UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD as the spelled-out sibling key.

Key figures

  • UP RAILROAD COMPANY as FEC employer text totals $3.6M ($3,567,994) from 769 donors.
  • 27,188 contribution lines sit under that abbreviated carrier stamp.
  • UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD and BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY are separate FEC keys.
  • The label is self-reported form text, not a NAICS industry or company PAC total.

UP abbreviation as stored, not a Class I recode

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. UP RAILROAD COMPANY is the carrier as committees stored it, including the two-letter UP abbreviation. The $3,567,994 total is those itemized gifts. It is not freight revenue, not track-miles, and not a NAICS rollup of all railroads.

People who typed UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, UNION PACIFIC, UP RAILROAD without COMPANY, BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY, or ENGINEER without the carrier sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not collapse those spellings into this key. Researchers who want a combined Union Pacific family must recode after export. Top employer matches UP RAILROAD COMPANY.

769 donors and 27,188 lines

769 unique donors produced 27,188 UP RAILROAD COMPANY contribution lines totaling $3,567,994. That is on the order of 35 itemized receipts per donor and a mean gift near $131 — a lower mean gift than several professional-services stamps at similar dollars, consistent with a high line count. Mean per donor is about $4,640. The packet does not publish a craft-versus-management split or a cycle year.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the company’s committee PAC filings are outside the $3,567,994 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Coverage is federal itemized individual receipts only.

Full analysis: UP RAILROAD COMPANY money in federal elections

Questions

How much have UP RAILROAD COMPANY-listed donors given federally?
LobbyVault attributes $3,567,994 to the UP RAILROAD COMPANY employer string, from 27,188 contributions and 769 donors. These are itemized individual receipts on FEC.gov, not the company’s PAC and not a NAICS rail-transportation total. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
Is UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD included in this total?
Only if those receipts grouped to UP RAILROAD COMPANY. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD as a spelled-out string is a separate grouped key if filers used it. The $3.6M total is receipts whose employer text grouped to UP RAILROAD COMPANY. LobbyVault does not merge those variants into this row. Unitemized gifts are omitted.
Does this include BNSF employees?
No. BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY is a separate employer string. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text UP RAILROAD COMPANY. Staff who typed only ENGINEER are in that title row instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
How many unique donors listed UP RAILROAD COMPANY?
The rollup counts 769 donors and 27,188 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not an employee headcount from the carrier. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Cycle-over-Cycle Trend

UP RAILROAD COMPANY political contributions by election cycle.
CycleTotalContributionsDonors
2016$19,53121511
2018$27,17819510

Top Donors

Top UP RAILROAD COMPANY donors ranked by total donated.
#NameTotalContributionsCity / StateOccupationHistory
1ASHMORE, STEPHEN C$3,20817BELLEVUE, NEGEN DIR2016
2ADELMAN, EDWARD A$2,99520MORO, ILGEN DIR SAFETY ANALYSIS2016
3ARAMBULO, MANUEL$1,75019DENVER, COMGR TRACK PROJ2016
4ARNOLD JR, WALTER LEE$1,72119JONESBORO, ARMGR OPER PRAC2016
5AVALON, RUSSELL DEAN$1,68019PAPILLION, NESR MGR2016
6AZZARELLO, MICHAEL A$1,53819EASTVALE, CASR MGR TERM OPS2016
7ANDERSON, TAMMY L$1,51537LAVISTA, NESR MGR IND TRACK CONSTR2016
8ASTUTO, JAMES ALLEN$1,40619LA VISTA, NEMGR DATA INTEGRITY2016
9ANDREWS, ERIC J$1,34718OMAHA, NEMGR2016
10ANDERSON, KARIN E$1,20015OMAHA, NESR DIR FED TAX COMPL2016
11AHRENS III, JOHN$1,17113ORANGE, CASR BUS MGR SALES2016
12ATHY, ANGELA S$88011OMAHA, NEMGR MGMT DEV - DELIVERY2016
13ATKINSON, TERRY J$80015OMAHA, NEDIR MDSC2016
14ADDISON, JEFFREY STEWART$64510OMAHA, NEGEN DIR TRANS PLNG & SCHED2016
15ANTOINE, FRITZ GERALD$60012CERRITOS, CAMGR LOCO MNTCE I2016
16ANDERSON, RYAN J$58012DENVER, COBUS DIR SALES2016
17ANDERSEN, BRANDON SCOTT$49012OMAHA, NESR BUS MGR M&S2016
18ANTHONY, DUSTIN W$36011OMAHA, NECORRIDOR MGR2016
19ADAMSON, KARA L$2257BELLEVUE, NEMGR RESOURCE PLNG2016
20ASHER, KYLA JO$2007BELLEVUE, NERMCC TEAM LDR2016
21ABOLAFIA, STEVEN Z$2007ELKHORN, NEDIR BUS ANALYSIS2016
22ARPUTHASWAMY, GNANASEKAR$1003OMAHA, NESR MGR2016
23ASHWORTH, DEBRA RAE$1004PAPILLION, NESUPT DISPATCHING CNTR2016
24ANDERSON, JUSTIN DALE$1003LAFAYETTE, LADIR ROAD OPS2016
25AUSTAD, JAMES C$803OMAHA, NEDIR PROC STDS & INTEGRATION2016
26ALLEN, JACOB TYLER$752FREDERICK, COMGR TRACK PROJ2016
27ADELMAN, BRIAN A$331LAKE CHARLES, LADIR TERM OPS2016

Top Recipients

Top political committees that received UP RAILROAD COMPANY donations.
#CommitteeTotalContributions
1UNION PACIFIC CORP. FUND FOR EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENTC00010470$88,285278
2FORD MOTOR COMPANY CIVIC ACTION FUNDC00046474$3,42512
3ZENECA INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AZPAC)C00279455$33037